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03 Aug 2015 6:50:42am

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> Making statements with no proof is useless. Just because you repeat it so many times does not make it so!

I agree fully! So would you like to provide some evidence to justify your claims that:- "The Immortal was well before the mortal in spirit, body and soul in word and deeds"- "The 10 Commandments has the ethics given to us by Divinity. "- and, of course, "Unfortunately many have not forgotten these they simply ignore them for their own desires."

On the topic of evolution, yes, there's no evidence we came from chimpanzees. That's because we didn't come from chimpanzees. Chimpanzees and humans share a common ancestor that we both split off from about 4-6 million years ago. This is a subtle distinction that you need to understand if you're going to understand evolution in detail. This site: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/ discusses the evidence in great detail, including explaining why some creationist arguments aren't correct.

Darwin did not, in fact, deny evolution on his deathbed. That particular story was invented out of whole cloth by one Lady Hope - Darwin's daughter Henrietta was present at his deathbed and noted that Lady Hope had never seen Darwin in person, and that he didn't change his mind while dying. Even the Answers in Genesis website notes that the story is false: http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2009/03/31/darwins-deathbed-conversion-legend .

More to the point, even if Darwin recanted that would have no bearing on the physical evidence that so strongly suggests evolution happened.